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Letters : Bad booze

Published 3 May 1997

From
Duncan Cross

Wolverhampton

What the exchanges about the beneficial effects to health of polyphenols in
alcohol ignore is the detrimental effects on behavioural and other health
patterns that chemical additives in booze can have
(Letters, 29 March, p 53).

It has been claimed that there are 19 added ingredients in wine alone, none
of which we are allowed to know about, as the whole alcohol industry is exempt
from the food labelling laws. This is at the behest of national governments and
the European Union, and is as good an example of cover-up and protection of an
industry as the scandal …